On Twitter this morning, a female user alleged she was robbed and raped by a Lagos cab man.

Although the tweets have now been deleted, a number of news sources were able to get screen shots.

Because @MadamFunky used the hashtag #AccessUberRide_ while narrating her purported ordeal, observers assumed that her tweets were a PR stunt from Access Bank. However, the bank has denied any affiliation with the individual.

The lengths people go just for marketing in this hashtage age is just so sick.If she wasn’t truly raped and she decided to do this,she needs intervention and the company needs to be duly given a strike or something.Anyway thank God there was no identity for the “alleged” rapist but mahn this is just so disgusting.On the other hand,if she was truly raped,social media is not neccessarily the best way to go about a narrative and that company should again,be duly given a strike for it!!!I can’t even deal ,WOW!!!And she’s so young,hope she wasn’t forced into this sad thing tho!Just checked her twitter,it’s locked…*sigh* May God help our future generation,Amen!

this girl that wrote this shit should be arrested. using a very sensitive subject like kidnapping and rape as a promotional tool to get people talking about a taxi brand. I think the government should ban them from operating in nigeria, what nonsense.

this is a slap on genuine victims of rape and kidnapping.

when did lagos cab drivers start uaing worda like “don’t even dare think of it” and suck my di*k.

To be honest under advertising laws in some countries, you can’t try this rubbish!!! The advertising body will sanction the agency, the bank in question (Access Bank) go pay fine!! All Men go drop enough money wella. I attended a social media class in 2012 and one of our teachers/lectures Dan said in his country (Netherlands), there some sought of adverts that won’t be approved cos it will look the person is being forced psychologically.

I don’t know whether this is fiction or not, but rape is never something to joke about or use as a PR stunt. I use Uber in the US and it’s a 100% better and cheaper than the local taxi company. However, I don’t know that I’ll trust Uber anywhere else in the world, especially in a third world country, where there is no database.

Even here in the States there have been several uber horror stories. Women being molested etc. A man was assaulted, several law suits. Über can be dangerous anywhere. The drivers are sometimes not properly vetted.

Nonsense PR stunt! Rape of all topics? Utter rubbish! Now they are all denying this when this was done by a professional PR person. How come her use of words is so impeccable and her sentences are so coherent? Next time contact me if you need to promote your brand in a less offensive way. Nonsense

You people should SHUT UP!!!!!The girl is obviously speaking the truth…it might not be related to the bank but there’s a real story here but stone throwers and casters will not let her be….She is not doing any PR stunt mofo’s. Read that story again and you will get it and that one that says she didn’t tell her mum???Aiya,may you not meet such an ordeal…I’d like to see how you’d handle it!!!!!!

Really?People should shut up?We are supposed to believe her when she plugged in the company’s name in every single tweet she made like she worked for them, and at the end claimed they scrutinize all their drivers, so should be trusted? Now how in the hell will she know that? If i were a rape victim, i certainly wont be making such claims in the first place when i dont know what these drivers(or any human being for that matter) are truly capable of. She claimed she never told anyone yet took to twitter promoting a company she knows nothing about? There are other organized taxi companies in Naija…why did she choose that particular one? Why not ask people to be careful, and not take taxis at that time of the night alone or something. The whole thing sounds shady and irritating as hell.

Wow! Clearly a farce. If I were raped, I would not be able to detail it the way she did.Rape is so degrading that you can only tell the story up to the point before the rape, the act itself would be a quick summary and the aftermath a painful blur. Can’t believe people can stoop so low. If she was raped ha! She no fit get hand to tweet mtchew….

Bruno always speaks the truth. BN should give him a column to write his thoughts. Just saying… That story is clearly fiction. No rape victim will be bold enough to describe their horrible experience on social media.

It’s insulting that rape was used in this manner. It’s just as bad as the guys on the norubber suggesting that Elliot Rodger should have gone and rape someone rather than go on a killing spree because the women he was interested in weren’t into him. But which one is “no rape victim will be bold enough to tell on social media”??? Is it not this same BN that countless people have shared their stories? Twitter, Walk Against Rape, and the countless other social media avenues where people were able to regain their voice.

Please in your attempts to disapprove and condemn something (and rightfully so) please do not aim your shots at victims in telling them how they should narrate their ordeals. @Audrey @Lolo @personal assistant @nene